BIO:  HON. GEORGE W. MUMPER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 708-709
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    HON. GEORGE W. MUMPER, one of the prominent and substantial citizens of
  Cumberland county, Pa., for many years a farmer in Lower Allen township and
  now a resident of Elmwood, where he has erected a handsome residence, is a
  worthy representative of an old German family, which was established in York
  county, by his grandfather.
    
    Michael Mumper, or Momber, as the name was then spelled, was of prominent
  and wealthy ancestry in Germany, and was a young man when he came to make his
  own fortune, in America. He was very successful and became an extensive farmer
  and large land owner in York county.
    
    John Mumper, son of Michael, and father of Hon. George W., was born at
  Dillsburg, York county, Pa., and spent his life there, engaged in farming,
  dying Aug. 8, 1863, aged eighty-one years. He married Jane Bealman, of Center
  Square, who died June 4, 1864. They had these children: Ann died unmarried;
  Elizabeth is the wife of Jacob Heiges, of Dillsburg; Christina, wife of
  Daniel Bailey, died at Dillsburg; Michael, who married Eliza Coover, died at
  Dillsburg; Maria, who married Capt. Jacob Dorsheimer, died at Mechanicsburg;
  John, who married Elizabeth M. Allison, of Perry
    
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  county, died at Williams Grove, York county; Lydia, who married Matthew
  Porter, died March 15, 1874, at Dillsburg; Catherine died single; Samuel, who
  married Mary King, of Adams county, is the farmer on the old homestead; and
  George W.
    
    Hon. George W. Mumper was born in January, 1828, near Dillsburg, York Co.,
  Pa., and attended the village school, one of his companions and associates
  being the late Senator Matthew S. Quay, with whom he was long on friendly
  terms, although entirely opposed to him in his political convictions and
  methods. Mr. Mumper grew up a practical farmer, and remained at Dillsburg
  until his marriage, when he bought a fine farm property in Lower Allen
  township, Cumberland county, on which he made his home until the spring of
  1901, when he removed to his present spacious residence at Elmwood.
    
    A lifelong Democrat and a conscientious supporter of the principles of that
  party, he became prominent in Cumberland county, and in 1874 was elected to
  the House of Representatives, serving through two terms with an efficiency
  which reflects credit both upon him and his constituency. For twenty-one
  years he has been president of the school board, and deeply interested in
  everything which has promised to prove of substantial benefit to this section.
    
    At Dillsburg, in 1854, Mr. Mumper was united in marriage with Mary Jane
  Mateer, born in Cumberland county, a daughter of William and Mary Ann
  (Porter) Mateer. Mr. Mateer was one of the early members of the Silver Spring
  Church, in the days when, peaceable as was their intentions, they carried with
  them their trusty rifles. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Mumper were:
  William Murray, who died at the age of three years; John, who died at the age
  of four years; Lulu B., who died aged thirty-one years; George B. McClelland,
  who graduated at Dickinson College, in 1884, later engaged in cattle raising
  in Kansas, and is now a commercial traveler for a Harrisburg shoe house (he
  married Campellena McKeever, who died in Kansas); Samuel, a resident of New
  Cumberland, who married Harriet Nixon; and Mary Ann, who resides at home. Mr.
  Mumper is a leading member and one of the liberal supporters of the Silver
  Spring Presbyterian Church, and one of its trustees. Fraternally, he is a
  Mason.